Explore 2973 historical events from 1970–1979.
Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen was an American mobster based in Los Angeles and boss of the Cohen crime family during the mid-20th century.
Mickey Cohen, American gangster (born 1913)
The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. Known for helping establish the punk movement in the United State…
The American band the Ramones released their debut album, which became highly influential on the emerging punk rock move
The 1976 Friuli earthquake, also known in Italy as Terremoto del Friuli, occurred on 6 May 1976, at 21:00:13 with a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum EMS intensity of X. The sh…
An earthquake struck Northern Italy, killing 990 people and injuring up to 3,000
The Great American Revolution is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, United States. Manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf and designed b…
Great American Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain, California
A wine competition is an organized event in which trained judges or consumers competitively rate different vintages, categories, and/or brands of wine. Wine competitions generally …
In a wine competition in Paris (wine bottle pictured), French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wine
The Bunbury woodchip bombing was a politically motivated bombing that took place on 19 July 1976 at a woodchip export terminal in Bunbury, Western Australia.
Environmental activists bombed the port facilities in Bunbury, Western Australia, in an attempt to disrupt the…
The Teton Dam was an earthen dam in the western United States, on the Teton River in eastern Idaho. It was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, one of eight federal agencies au…
The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, U
The Double Six Crash, also known as the Double Six Tragedy, was a crash, involving a GAF N-22B Nomad of Sabah Air, which took place on 6 June 1976 at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, killi…
A plane crashed near Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia, killing politicians Fuad Stephens (pictured) and Pet
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by four of the six know…
The first identifiable case of Ebola occurred in Sudan
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Unio…
More than a year after the end of the Vietnam War, North and South Vietnam officially merged under communist rule to…
The Israel Defense Forces, alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym Tzahal (צה״ל), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service bra…
Israeli forces raided Uganda's Entebbe International Airport to free hostages taken by hijackers on Air France…
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad and officially branded as Montreal 1976, were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to Au…
At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern…
Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft, along with Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program. The lander touched down on…
The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands,…
Japan completed its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of…
Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft, along with Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program. The lander touched down on…
The orbiting spacecraft Viking 1 took a photograph of an apparent face on Mars in a classic example of pareidolia.
The 1976 Tangshan earthquake was a Mw 7.6 earthquake that hit the region around Tangshan, Hebei, China, at 19:42:55 UTC on 27 July. The maximum intensity of the earthquake was XI (…
An earthquake registering 7.6 Mw, one of the deadliest in history, devastated Tangshan, China, and killed at least…
Sony Group Corporation, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses variou…
Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder
Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, author and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on…
Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
On 27 May 1975, a coach carrying elderly passengers crashed at the bottom of a steep hill at Dibble's Bridge over the River Dibb, near Hebden in North Yorkshire, England. Thirty-th…
Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a ro
Brampton Centennial Secondary School (BCSS) is a public high school located in Brampton, Ontario, Canada and is part of the Peel District School Board. In September 2008, BCSS had …
At Brampton Centennial Secondary School, student Michael Slobodian kills two people and injures 13 others before committ
The Cambodian Civil War was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the Khmer Rouge, supported by North Vietnam and China, against the government of the Kingdom of Cambodia and, aft…
The Cambodian Civil War ends and the Cambodian Genocide begins
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in…
India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia
The European Space Agency (ESA), pronounced 'ee-sah', is a 23-member international organisation devoted to space exploration. It has its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around…
European Space Agency is established
The governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California. The governor is the commander-in-chief of the California National Guard and the California Sta…
Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the